According to Čubinov, an Armenian borrowing: compare Old Armenianծիտ(cit), Middle Armenianչիտ(čʿit), ջիտ(ǰit, “sparrow”). This is rejected by Ačaṙean, because in Armenian the word is used post-classically and infrequently and now is present in Eastern dialects only; he considers the Armenian words to be borrowed from Kartvelian, the Middle Armenian forms specifically from Georgian.